Slide It In was the high water mark. A synthesis of the classic and the “Americanized” version. The end of the beginning and beginning of the end. Coverdale achieved what he wanted and proved his detractors wrong. I love both versions.
For those that dont know, Def Leppard was gonna play Rock in Rio, then the car accident happened and Whitesnake was thrown in at the last minute… they stopped the show! John Sykes was amazing!!!
Mel Galley never seemed to get the recognition he must deserve for the songwriting contributions he made to “Slide it In”. It is my favourite Whitesnake album.
Mel Galley had already done great things in the US, ten years earlier with Trapeze. So. if Slide It In was the album that Americanized Whitesnake, it should be clear where a lot of the inspiration came from...😊
Has anyone else noticed the echo of Trapeze's "You are the music" in the middle of the UK Mix of Spit It Out (around 1:50)? I interpret it as Mel adding his "watermark"...
Simply put: Coverdale- one of the best blues/rock singers all-time. Sykes- A unforgettable vibrato with the "rock star" looks. Cozy Powell- Drumming legend. Neil Murray-A solid bassist & seems like a great bloke. Jon Lord- Practically revolutionized keyboards in Rock music with Deep Purple. Mel Galley: A tasty player that never got the credit he deserved. Finally....Slide It In(the album) = Greatness.
John Sykes work on 1987’s album was the defining work that made the band. Everything before and after pales. The fact that we were cheated from more Whitesnake albums with John is criminal.
The self titled 1987 album was my favorite Whitesnake album for at least 30 years.Slide It In these past few years has become my favorite. I even love albums like Saints And Sinners, Ready An Willin', Trouble, and Lovehunter big time.
47:50 "I don't think Slide It In is anyone's favorite Whitesnake record..." Holy shit is he wrong!! Many site it as their favorite of the bunch, including me!
Saw the classic lineups in the early 80's, and thats whitesnake for me. What came later might be good in its own way, but is it whitesnake? Cov has had a fantastic bunch of musicians in the band since the mid 80's, but give me the Moody Marsden Murray Lord Paice version any day.
Followed Coverdale all through his career and always loved the more bluesy material over the newer stuff after Slide It In - But hey, got to give it to him for making it here in the U.S. the way he did and I won't hold any of it against him - He did what he had to, in order to become the star he is now.
Saw Whitesnake and Quiet Riot in Dallas TX in 1984. Saw Whitesnake again in 1987 at the Texas Jam. I listened to the Slide it in album for most of 1986-87. Then the Whitesnake album came out and I was blown away.
White Snake and Def Leppard were my Favorites Hair Rock Bands in the 1980s as a Highschool Kid and my College years in late 80s . Not so young anymore but this takes me back . ❤😊
Def Leppard were awesome through “Pyromania”. But few bands lost the ability to compose moving music as hard and fast as they did. It’s shocking how mediocre they were from “Hysteria” onwards. “Gods of War” is the only truly great song they’ve composed in four decades.
The self titled Whitsnake (1987) and Hysteria were in everyone's car in 1987 till 1988. A pair of albums (casettes 😅) you saw a lot together back then.
I can totally understand that Coverdale wanted to evolve from the traditional R'n'B White snake played for so many years..and Sykes was a good decision. You still can hear where they came from on 1987. Interestingly, when the success came in the US Sykes wasnt a member anymore, but his playing on the hit on 1987 made him immortal.
Took me a little while to come around to the older stuff but I enjoy it now. As it kid it felt a bit honky tonk bar room boogie-ish. I love it now though!
Loved that documentary , however I love the song Gambler tho I agree it should have been the last song on the album and guilty of love the 1st track , but it’s still a classic.
I discovered Coverdale when I bought the Made In Europe record around 1982 and was a huge fan of his vocal abilities. However, being in the states, I had never even heard of Whitesnake. My first introduction was one night while watching MTV and the video for Slow and Easy comes on. I was kind of blown away by the combination of the riffage of the song and imagery in the video. Whitesnake was immediately on my radar after that, and I've gone back and collected every album with that name on it.
Besides Coverdale was and is Sykes the most valuable guy as for his exceptional guitars and songwriting. Tremendous guy. I fell completely in love with his playing and singing in Thin Lizzy. So powerful and exceptionally good he is/was. These guys deserve (like Phil Lynott) a statue of Rock
47:50 "I don't think 'Slide it In' is anyone's favourite Whitesnake album....". It is certainly my favourite Whitesnake album and even one of the 5 most influential albums in my life.
Oh well: loved the early bluesy band and slide it in was fantastic , 87 got over played. Now we are old men - It worked for my youth , and get that man a dentist……
Old whitesnake good bluesy rock! When Sykes joined real good heavy rock! Im with Sykes on this one! Gotta give credit though to Coverdales awesome voice
Both styles are great, i love to see musicians progress from one thing to another, i bet with Coverdale's voice they could have put out a country music album, but the "fans" could not handle it, I like the Bee Gees and Slayer, Elton John and Dio, i just love music and if done right i will check it out. open your mind.
I Saw 👀 WhiteSnake at UCLA Royce Hall in 1978 The Band Was Staying At The Sunset Marquee I Was Working At BCRICH Guitars and I Put a Invitation For Bassist Neil Murray To Stop on By BCRICH Was a Small Operation on Valley Blvd in a Garage Behind a Bar Called The Sip n Shoot Well Neil Shows Up and We Built Him a Maple Mockingbird Bass
Regarding that Bushell review, Blackmore was in fact a big fan of Slide It In, even though he and Coverdale were still decades from becoming friends again. Gary Bushell had a problem with Coverdale, Schenker, Gary Barden, and Glenn Hughes, and hammered them in Sounds at every opportunity. He was far kinder to many associated people (Ritchie Blackmore, Gary Moore).
I can almost guarantee that Sykes was fired because he drew more attention than David did. David went blonde and there wasn’t room for two blondes in the band. He probably asked John to dye his hair dark and john said no and was fired. All speculation and I could see David’s ego letting the best guitarist he’d ever had go over hair! Just a thought…… be kind!
Exactly. All these old-school guys trumpeting Moody and Marsden wear me out. Sure, Ready and Willing might be my second favorite WS album but those two guys put together don't come close to Sykes even at half speed. And David wasn't going to break America with them. Without Sykes, the Serpus album never happens.
My favorite Whitesnake LP! Great video and channel content! I want to recommend 2 vinyl releases to you. Medieval Death LP and free DVD and the Mordicus “Rights ‘n Trials” LP. If you want to know more, I suggest that you Google this exact sentence: "Medieval Death LP and free DVD + Mordicus Rights ‘n Trials LP". You will be able to check audio, videos etc. \m/
John Sykes MADE Whitesnake with his riffs and raunchy tone. NOBODY would care without the self titled album, except a few crusty old redcoats. I'm watching clip because I'm a John Sykes fan.
Can someone explain to me how the song _Slide It In_ is a "double entendre" like the guy said in the video? I've always taken it to be talking about sex and nothing else. What's the other interpretation? I guess I really am just a dumb American as implied.
So, I have seen various iterations of White Snake and I can tell you that about 1/3rd the way through a tour, Coverdale HAD NO VOICE -- and that couldn't be taken away. One of the issues that Blackmore had for him as well.
The UK Slide It In is the Whitesnake Coverdale wanted to crack America, the US version is John Kalodner and Geffen starting to take over behind the scenes. The best thing to come out of all the changes was John Sykes, fantastic guitarist and songwriter. Once he left, they just became another generic hair band. It would be ridiculous to call a smash hit album and millions of dollars a 'mistake' but it's obvious in all of Coverdale's 1989-90 interviews, he was done with it by then.
Gambler a weak track ? I think it's better than the title track. The wheels came off mightily when Vai joined the band and everything that follows is grim imo. Vandenberg miming Sykes solo's makes me nauseous
What did Vai do wrong? Slip of the tongue was a decent album not great but Vai was just there to play some solos. He had very little if any influence on the song writing. I think glam metal was circling the drain in general at the time it wasn’t Vai’s fault.
Vai was not the problem, he came at the last second to help finish the record because Adrian Vandeberg broke his wrist. He stayed on an toured with them because it was a jump starter for his solo album, he was never to be a permanent member.
And I was hoping this fabulous foursome could be able to come here down to Buenos Aires after Rock In Rio... I was far to know Rio was their last gig...
Ok so that Kalodner guy talked coverdale out of the bluesy rock stuff! To get both melodic and harder in order to hit it in the states and to change the line up of the band all for money and fame, John Sykes contribution to the 87 album will never be forgotten although these changes happend and the slide it in album is still one of the best along with 87
Sykes was the best musician, amd more importantly the best singer on that stage. If you listen carefully to any live clip on here, Coverdale doesn't hit a single note. Sykes was the ultimate pro.
John owns a great pair af ears and ridiculous amount of musicality. On the other hand, David’s sense of pitch was never that great. However, the timbre of David’s voice was pure gold and he delivered it like the final boss. I don’t know any other singer who can sound so good while struggling with pitch.
Bass on the UK-mix is INAUDIBLE! That's why it needed improvements. Having John Sykes in, and Neil Murray back in, were definite bonuses. The track sequencing on the US-mix was also an improvement. Slide It In, the track, blasts out to tremendous effect, and Gambler's subtlety is saved for later. It turned a good album into a brilliant one, but that's no slur on Micky Moody or Colin "Bomber" Hodgkinson.
David was one of the best singers of the 80s and he did get critical acclaim not that it translated into record sales the only critism I've ever heard about his singing came from Robert plant and plant had obvious reasons and a right to say what he said but whitesnake as great as they were didn't translate into record sales until the label got one of the top a and r guys of the 80s to make them marketable to the American audience and then the band absolutely became the biggest in the world for at least 6 months
I wished Sykes had just let go of all that bitterness he had with Coverdale. (He has good reason to be upset with Coverdale.) But it would have been nice to have one more record of Sykes with David. David tried to reach out to him several times, but he would never return his phone calls.
Jon, Bernie, Cozy and Mel all gone, along with Davids vocals. David always looked slightly ill at ease with stardom, deep down he was a Northern lad who landed the gig with Purple and cracked America with Whitesnake. He worked his socks off, deserved his success but in the end it was a solo project backed by mercenaries who did what they were told and didnt have the courage to tell David his glorious voice had deserted him. Had they been more like friends they would have told him in 2011 after the Made In Japan DVD which was awful.
I far preferred the John Sykes first version/update of Here I Go Again to the single edit that was swamped in extra keyboard parts... It sounded raw and vital but the remix just sanitised it...
James May on bass. Slide it In was brilliant. The last screechless Coverdale lp. Now David needs to go back to the brandy drinking gentleman's club sound in small venues doing nothing post Slide it In.
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Coverdale, Moody, Murray, Paice, Marsden, Lord....best lineup IMHO.
True
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The only one for me too, Bernie and Micky Moody were one of those perfect duos, like Gorham and Robertson and Murray and Smith
Yep, love the early stuff
yes absolutely 💯
Neil Murray was one of my bass heroes ...and John Sykes is in a league of his own, just incredible..what a fantastic combo
Neil Murray was one of my heroes too. I played bass on and off for 40 years. I always go back to Neil Murray and Steve Harris
The British guys really understood how to play bass. Unlike a bunch of the American players who were barely there.
His work with the Japanese band Vow Wow was just as excellent too. The albums were V and Helter Skelter in the late 1980s.
lets not forget that Whitesnake made one of the best live-albums ever . "Live in the heart of city" :)
Ok
Not with this line-up
i ve been standing in front of the hammersmthi odeon because of this live album
Classic.
"live" it is not great, it lacks their big hits which came AFTER that album
John Sykes is a favorite but the great late Cozy is what made White Snake and early MSG incredible.
Rest Well Cozy Powell..
How do you not mention Rainbow?
Cozy wasn't really the fit for Whitesnake, Ian Paice much better.
@@RushfanUKBoth amazing players so no complaints from me.
@@moreblack Formidable band: Blackmore, Dio, Powell and Daisley .....Blackmore ruined that band wanting to go too pop.
And why did Cozy quit White Snake in 1985?
Gambler is not only a good album opener, but absolutely a great concert opener. "Love, I wanna get inside"
Great album. From first song to last.
Slide It In was the high water mark. A synthesis of the classic and the “Americanized” version. The end of the beginning and beginning of the end. Coverdale achieved what he wanted and proved his detractors wrong. I love both versions.
For those that dont know, Def Leppard was gonna play Rock in Rio, then the car accident happened and Whitesnake was thrown in at the last minute… they stopped the show! John Sykes was amazing!!!
I bought this album when I was 14 , i thought then and now its a great bombastic rock n roll album.
That's a brilliant description of the album.
mi álbum favorito lo compre cuando tenia 15 años
I far prefer it to the 1987 album.
Nice slow and easy is one of the most kick ass slide blues sounding hard driving rock songs I had ever heard at the time "slide it In" hit the stores!
Mel Galley never seemed to get the recognition he must deserve for the songwriting contributions he made to “Slide it In”. It is my favourite Whitesnake album.
Mel Galley had already done great things in the US, ten years earlier with Trapeze. So. if Slide It In was the album that Americanized Whitesnake, it should be clear where a lot of the inspiration came from...😊
@@nickname987321agree completely.
Has anyone else noticed the echo of Trapeze's "You are the music" in the middle of the UK Mix of Spit It Out (around 1:50)?
I interpret it as Mel adding his "watermark"...
Was going to comment about Mel, glad you did.🤙
I can´t understand how DC could not hold on to Mel Gelley. Really sad.
I love Gambler. Damn, one of my favorite…
Cozy Powell Neil and John Sykes Hell Yes i saw them Live !!!!
awesome band
Simply put: Coverdale- one of the best blues/rock singers all-time.
Sykes- A unforgettable vibrato with the "rock star" looks.
Cozy Powell- Drumming legend.
Neil Murray-A solid bassist & seems like a great bloke.
Jon Lord- Practically revolutionized keyboards in Rock music with Deep Purple.
Mel Galley: A tasty player that never got the credit he deserved.
Finally....Slide It In(the album) = Greatness.
John Sykes work on 1987’s album was the defining work that made the band. Everything before and after pales. The fact that we were cheated from more Whitesnake albums with John is criminal.
EXACTLY!
Sykes made them a defining hair band maybe
So Sykes was the sole reason Whitesnake was successful. Got it.
@@chatgpt-n8r and 15 metric tons of money
Yeah, it sucks. John tried to replace David, though 😅 so I got it.
The self titled 1987 album was my favorite Whitesnake album for at least 30 years.Slide It In these past few years has become my favorite. I even love albums like Saints And Sinners, Ready An Willin', Trouble, and Lovehunter big time.
47:50 "I don't think Slide It In is anyone's favorite Whitesnake record..." Holy shit is he wrong!! Many site it as their favorite of the bunch, including me!
That guy in front of the drum set, and the other with long hair….no idea what went on in their mind.
My favorite since I was little boy.I’m listening in my car,in my truck,every where I go.Thank you David,thank you White Snake
One of the most amazing rock voices
Absolutely great documentary.
My favorite Whitesnake album.
Saw the classic lineups in the early 80's, and thats whitesnake for me. What came later might be good in its own way, but is it whitesnake? Cov has had a fantastic bunch of musicians in the band since the mid 80's, but give me the Moody Marsden Murray Lord Paice version any day.
Followed Coverdale all through his career and always loved the more bluesy material over the newer stuff after Slide It In - But hey, got to give it to him for making it here in the U.S. the way he did and I won't hold any of it against him - He did what he had to, in order to become the star he is now.
Slide it In is a great album. I love it
There's no filler for me. It's all great songs and play loud from start to the end
Saw Whitesnake and Quiet Riot in Dallas TX in 1984. Saw Whitesnake again in 1987 at the Texas Jam. I listened to the Slide it in album for most of 1986-87. Then the Whitesnake album came out and I was blown away.
White Snake and Def Leppard were my Favorites Hair Rock Bands in the 1980s as a Highschool Kid and my College years in late 80s . Not so young anymore but this takes me back . ❤😊
Def Leppard were awesome through “Pyromania”. But few bands lost the ability to compose moving music as hard and fast as they did. It’s shocking how mediocre they were from “Hysteria” onwards. “Gods of War” is the only truly great song they’ve composed in four decades.
Simply Hard Rock
Hair Rock!!! Come on!!!!
@@malujuega1141 😄😄😄 that's nonsense
The self titled Whitsnake (1987) and Hysteria were in everyone's car in 1987 till 1988. A pair of albums (casettes 😅) you saw a lot together back then.
I can totally understand that Coverdale wanted to evolve from the traditional R'n'B White snake played for so many years..and Sykes was a good decision. You still can hear where they came from on 1987. Interestingly, when the success came in the US Sykes wasnt a member anymore, but his playing on the hit on 1987 made him immortal.
Slide it in & The 1987 self-titled albums are in constant rotation at my house! John Sykes and the band are killer!
Took me a little while to come around to the older stuff but I enjoy it now. As it kid it felt a bit honky tonk bar room boogie-ish. I love it now though!
You're right John Sykes killed the band. 💩
Man! Cozy Powell.😢❤
Thanks for posting these so often, Inside The Music!
Thanks for tuning in! We've got plenty more coming!
Coverdale , para siempre ❤❤
Loved that documentary , however I love the song Gambler tho I agree it should have been the last song on the album and guilty of love the 1st track , but it’s still a classic.
This is probably of the most solid albums ever.
Agreed!
thanks'! wow! johns guitar sound on love aint no stranger' beauty'! love that song peace
I saw Whitesnake at Monsters of Rock in Dortmund West German in 1983.
I discovered Coverdale when I bought the Made In Europe record around 1982 and was a huge fan of his vocal abilities. However, being in the states, I had never even heard of Whitesnake.
My first introduction was one night while watching MTV and the video for Slow and Easy comes on. I was kind of blown away by the combination of the riffage of the song and imagery in the video.
Whitesnake was immediately on my radar after that, and I've gone back and collected every album with that name on it.
My favorite Whitesnake album. One of my favorites period, actually.
Great album, got me into Whitesnake....Good idea to have John Sykes redo the guitars for the American release, it worked.
Besides Coverdale was and is Sykes the most valuable guy as for his exceptional guitars and songwriting. Tremendous guy. I fell completely in love with his playing and singing in Thin Lizzy. So powerful and exceptionally good he is/was. These guys deserve (like Phil Lynott) a statue of Rock
47:50 "I don't think 'Slide it In' is anyone's favourite Whitesnake album....". It is certainly my favourite Whitesnake album and even one of the 5 most influential albums in my life.
Love aint no stranger was my favorite as soon as I heard it.
it is THEE Song....that got me into Whitesnake. loved the slow build up. It is quintessential whitesnake
Oh well: loved the early bluesy band and slide it in was fantastic , 87 got over played. Now we are old men - It worked for my youth , and get that man a dentist……
Odlicno povezano sa raskosnim vokalom predivna numera
Old whitesnake good bluesy rock! When Sykes joined real good heavy rock! Im with Sykes on this one! Gotta give credit though to Coverdales awesome voice
My favorite album ya big goof!!!
As a kid, the time between Slide it in and the self-titled felt like FOREVER. Forevermore!
Im so sorry.
Both styles are great, i love to see musicians progress from one thing to another, i bet with Coverdale's voice they could have put out a country music album, but the "fans" could not handle it, I like the Bee Gees and Slayer, Elton John and Dio, i just love music and if done right i will check it out. open your mind.
32:38 "Invaders" is a fucking superb, high energy opener I think! Get's me pumped up.
great band . STILL A GREAT BAND!!!
I Saw 👀 WhiteSnake at
UCLA Royce Hall in
1978
The Band Was Staying At
The Sunset Marquee
I Was Working At
BCRICH Guitars and
I Put a Invitation For Bassist
Neil Murray To Stop on
By BCRICH Was a
Small Operation on
Valley Blvd in a Garage Behind a
Bar Called
The Sip n Shoot
Well Neil Shows Up and We Built Him
a Maple Mockingbird
Bass
Guilty of Love had a Thin Lizzy taste to it....
Malcolm Dome wrote some absolute bollocks in the Kerrang back in the day.
Regarding that Bushell review, Blackmore was in fact a big fan of Slide It In, even though he and Coverdale were still decades from becoming friends again. Gary Bushell had a problem with Coverdale, Schenker, Gary Barden, and Glenn Hughes, and hammered them in Sounds at every opportunity. He was far kinder to many associated people (Ritchie Blackmore, Gary Moore).
The Slide it in Box set from a few years back is AMAZING (on streaming too) both US/UK and a ton of other outtakes/live stuff. Remastered.
John SYKES the guitar GOD
Come and Get It is their best album in my opinion.
Buena voz !!!
Slip of the tongue was my favorite album...
Nothing better in a live show than off key backing vocals.
Everyone does it. Unless they're piped in, which seems to be the standard now. Nobody can sing for real. They couldn't back then either.
I can almost guarantee that Sykes was fired because he drew more attention than David did. David went blonde and there wasn’t room for two blondes in the band. He probably asked John to dye his hair dark and john said no and was fired. All speculation and I could see David’s ego letting the best guitarist he’d ever had go over hair! Just a thought…… be kind!
Sykes saved this band.
Exactly. All these old-school guys trumpeting Moody and Marsden wear me out. Sure, Ready and Willing might be my second favorite WS album but those two guys put together don't come close to Sykes even at half speed. And David wasn't going to break America with them. Without Sykes, the Serpus album never happens.
Whitesnake IS David Coverdale. That's all.
😂😂😂😂
He killed it!
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WHITESNAKE were/are a great blues/hard rock band. Nothing to do with glam bands like POISON/DEFF LEPPARD (don't trash them)
John Sykes MADE Whitesnake with his riffs and raunchy tone. NOBODY would care without the self titled album, except a few crusty old redcoats. I'm watching clip because I'm a John Sykes fan.
Wow. Those journos have smiles from the Great Book of British Dentistry!
John Sykes made David super famous. Without John, he would have never become huge
King, you are 100 percent correct.
Not a word about Richard Bailey(ex Magnum) that stepped into Jon Lord's shoes for the Japanese leg of the tour. 🎹 😢
BY FAR. I MEAN. F A R THIER BEST ALBUM. BAR NONE............
Will We Ever See a
Burn 🔥 Album
Reunion
Jon Lord RIP
My favourite DP album🤘🏻
Gambler one of the weakest songs on the album? Interesting opinion. Gambler smokes, favorite track on the record.
100% agree Gamblers ace
Gambler and Guilty Of Love: comercial trash.
@@davidesquivel5194 gambler is probably the least commercial track on the album. Guilty of love i agree, awful
The weakest 😂??? My best song
reinvented himself when he needed to. very clever.
Is Malcolm Dome in every rock documentary in England?
Cant stand the guy. Talks 💩
Can someone explain to me how the song _Slide It In_ is a "double entendre" like the guy said in the video? I've always taken it to be talking about sex and nothing else. What's the other interpretation? I guess I really am just a dumb American as implied.
Yeah, that was so patronising - as if Americans were incapable of understanding the very obvious meaning of the lyrics.
So, I have seen various iterations of White Snake and I can tell you that about 1/3rd the way through a tour, Coverdale HAD NO VOICE -- and that couldn't be taken away. One of the issues that Blackmore had for him as well.
Sykes is now sitting back smoking weed reminiscing about Coverdale
The UK Slide It In is the Whitesnake Coverdale wanted to crack America, the US version is John Kalodner and Geffen starting to take over behind the scenes. The best thing to come out of all the changes was John Sykes, fantastic guitarist and songwriter. Once he left, they just became another generic hair band. It would be ridiculous to call a smash hit album and millions of dollars a 'mistake' but it's obvious in all of Coverdale's 1989-90 interviews, he was done with it by then.
I love David, and his great Commercial success, but Whitesnake was never
Musically "above" Deep Purple
John Sykes doesn't get the credit he deserves
Gambler a weak track ? I think it's better than the title track. The wheels came off mightily when Vai joined the band and everything that follows is grim imo. Vandenberg miming Sykes solo's makes me nauseous
totally agree
What did Vai do wrong? Slip of the tongue was a decent album not great but Vai was just there to play some solos. He had very little if any influence on the song writing. I think glam metal was circling the drain in general at the time it wasn’t Vai’s fault.
To say Whitesnake did nothing after 87 is unfair. Good to be Bad, Forevermore and Flesh and Blood are solid albums with excellent tracks.
True Sykes was the guy period
Vai was not the problem, he came at the last second to help finish the record because Adrian Vandeberg broke his wrist. He stayed on an toured with them because it was a jump starter for his solo album, he was never to be a permanent member.
Whitesnake
Rock in Rio I, 1985
I was there 🤘🎸
And I was hoping this fabulous foursome could be able to come here down to Buenos Aires after Rock In Rio... I was far to know Rio was their last gig...
Always like seeing Jerry Ewing, he knows his shit.
Ok so that Kalodner guy talked coverdale out of the bluesy rock stuff! To get both melodic and harder in order to hit it in the states and to change the line up of the band all for money and fame, John Sykes contribution to the 87 album will never be forgotten although these changes happend and the slide it in album is still one of the best along with 87
Sykes was the best musician, amd more importantly the best singer on that stage. If you listen carefully to any live clip on here, Coverdale doesn't hit a single note. Sykes was the ultimate pro.
John owns a great pair af ears and ridiculous amount of musicality. On the other hand, David’s sense of pitch was never that great. However, the timbre of David’s voice was pure gold and he delivered it like the final boss. I don’t know any other singer who can sound so good while struggling with pitch.
@@demokraatti Fair enough mate. Good tone (until the late 80s) but couldn't sing in tune. I'd love his money though, fair play ;-)
You only need to listen to the first Blue Murder album to hear what a great singer/guitarist/songwriter John Sykes was!
1978 UCLA Royce Hall
American version easily the best version goofballs!!
Bass on the UK-mix is INAUDIBLE! That's why it needed improvements. Having John Sykes in, and Neil Murray back in, were definite bonuses. The track sequencing on the US-mix was also an improvement. Slide It In, the track, blasts out to tremendous effect, and Gambler's subtlety is saved for later. It turned a good album into a brilliant one, but that's no slur on Micky Moody or Colin "Bomber" Hodgkinson.
For me the only Whitesnake that exists is the stuff with John Sykes. I play guitar and I follow his career. Is the other stuff pretty good?
David was one of the best singers of the 80s and he did get critical acclaim not that it translated into record sales the only critism I've ever heard about his singing came from Robert plant and plant had obvious reasons and a right to say what he said but whitesnake as great as they were didn't translate into record sales until the label got one of the top a and r guys of the 80s to make them marketable to the American audience and then the band absolutely became the biggest in the world for at least 6 months
In their prime !
I wished Sykes had just let go of all that bitterness he had with Coverdale. (He has good reason to be upset with Coverdale.) But it would have been nice to have one more record of Sykes with David. David tried to reach out to him several times, but he would never return his phone calls.
Always been my favourite Whitesnake album, but wasn't too keen on the U.S. remix.
This was before Tommy Aldridge became a member
It is a Slide it in documentary not a Whit snake documentary.
Last good Bluesrock Album from Coverdale. I also Love Northwinds. 1987 was a Led Zeppelin ripp Off.
Nobody has a need to rip off that overrated crap called Led Zeppelin who were much better at stealing than anybody else
This is about not having the success in the end! No more to say!
Until their last concert they played the same songs since that time, they stayed in the past.
6:00 ... pants on fire.... Coverdale humiliated Moody in front of Sykes.
Jon, Bernie, Cozy and Mel all gone, along with Davids vocals.
David always looked slightly ill at ease with stardom, deep down he was a Northern lad who landed the gig with Purple and cracked America with Whitesnake.
He worked his socks off, deserved his success but in the end it was a solo project backed by mercenaries who did what they were told and didnt have the courage to tell David his glorious voice had deserted him.
Had they been more like friends they would have told him in 2011 after the Made In Japan DVD which was awful.
I far preferred the John Sykes first version/update of Here I Go Again to the single edit that was swamped in extra keyboard parts... It sounded raw and vital but the remix just sanitised it...
James May on bass. Slide it In was brilliant. The last screechless Coverdale lp. Now David needs to go back to the brandy drinking gentleman's club sound in small venues doing nothing post Slide it In.
Weird it does not pay hommage to the real beginnings of this album with a differeny line up.